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    Ant vs Tencent – TechCrunch

    As Ant Group seizes the world’s attention with its record initial public offering, which was abruptly called off by Beijing, investors and analysts...

    Facebook Removes Pages Linked to Bannon for Pushing Misinformation

    Facebook on Monday removed a network of pages affiliated with the former Trump strategist Stephen K. Bannon that had worked together to push false...

    No, Software Glitches Are Not Affecting Vote Counts

    President Trump and many of his supporters complained over the weekend that “software glitches” undermined the vote counts in Michigan and Georgia and argued...

    Elon Musk’s Boring Company is setting up operations in Austin – TechCrunch

    Elon Musk’s tunneling and transportation startup The Boring Company is eyeing Austin for its next project based on several new job postings. The Boring Company,...

    Sony prepares to enter the drone game with Airpeak – TechCrunch

    Sony has announced that it is entering the drone market with a new brand called Airpeak, though the specifics of the drone itself...

    Uber has its highest close since IPO – TechCrunch

    Uber shares surged 7.38% to close at $48.18 following news that a vaccine candidate is 90% effective at preventing COVID-19, and could start coming...

    Reviewing the biggest and smallest new iPhones – TechCrunch

    We review the iPhone 12 Pro Max and the iPhone 12 mini, Zoom settles with the FTC and Pfizer announces promising results for its...

    Beyond Meat earnings miss big on declining food service and consumer demand – TechCrunch

    Beyond Meat’s partnership with McDonald’s to develop the McPlant burger wasn’t enough to keep shares from collapsing after the company posted third-quarter earnings...

    All Slingbox devices will stop working in two years – TechCrunch

    Back before just about every major TV network built a streaming app of their own, watching live TV on your smartphone was… tricky. One of...

    Gillmor Gang: Check, Please – TechCrunch

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW-EX6prlR0 When we recorded this Gillmor Gang, it was Day Four post election, or midweek in counting the late incoming mail and other provisional ballots....

    Twitter may slow down users’ ability to ‘like’ tweets containing misinformation – TechCrunch

    Twitter is working to expand the use of its “misinformation” labels on misleading tweets. The company has developed a new feature, not yet...

    All Hail the Un-Tech Election

    This article is part of the On Tech newsletter. You can sign up here to receive it weekdays.On Tech is taking a short hiatus....

    How Claims of Dead Michigan Voters Spread Faster Than the Facts

    The tweets began to arrive Wednesday night, carrying explosive claims that people in Michigan were voting under the names of dead people.Austen Fletcher, a...

    Top 10 Misinformation Storylines on Election Week

    Election week was a misinformation event of Super Bowl-size proportions.Most false and misleading narratives about the election focused on baseless allegations of voter fraud...

    NASA partners with SpaceX, Rocket Lab, Blue Origin and others for test flights and research – TechCrunch

    NASA has announced 20 new partnerships with commercial space outfits, among them collaborations with SpaceX, Blue Origin, and Rocket Lab. While no money...

    Adobe acquires marketing workflow startup Workfront for $1.5B – TechCrunch

    Adobe just announced that it is acquiring marketing workflow management startup Workfront for $1.5 billion. Bloomberg first reported the sale would be happening earlier...